Stability
Stability (combined with security) is the basis for establishing relationships with people and society. And contributes to self-development through education, work and leisure activities.
Insights
Having to change shelter locations frequently is one of the biggest sources of stress for new arrivals.
The instability of receiving people from Ukraine is one of the biggest sources of stress. This is also an obstacle to finding suitable work, while suitable and sustainable work is a prerequisite for greater autonomy in arranging one's own housing.
Temporary employment arrangements for EU migrant workers often have direct consequences for their livelihood security.
EU labor migrants who come to the Netherlands through a temporary employment arrangement are often offered housing by the sending agency in addition to work. In this situation, ending the working relationship has direct consequences for people's livelihood security. Access to basic services ceases along with the working relationship. The most accessible option to still be able to stay in the Netherlands is to look for a similar temporary employment construction. In this way, people, some of whom have lived in the Netherlands for years, continue to rotate within an alternative system designed to facilitate temporary residence.
Design questions
How do we create more stability for newcomers?
How can we reduce changing shelter locations? And, if this is not possible, in this stressful situation of many changes, facilitate more sources of stability?
How do we create livelihood security for EU migrant workers?
How can people who come to the Netherlands as EU labor migrants work towards subsistence security? In the current context where housing is often linked to work and there is a scarcity on the regular housing market?
